A good replacement of the now ageing ''mplayer-plugin'', is [http://code.google.com/p/gecko-mediaplayer/ Gecko Media Player]. More stable combined with MPlayer 1.0RC2. ''(No more crashes with Apple Trailers.)''

If you installed the plugins like above but they are not used by firefox (you can verify this with typing about:config in the adressbar and hitting return.) It's usually a permission problem. Just fix those with:

Estensioni

CCK Wizard - Allows you to customize every aspect of Firefox. Title bar, user agent, icons, about graphic, and a lot more.

User Agent Switcher - Adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the browser.

Configurazione Avanzata

Enter about:config in your Firefox address bar to access the advanced configuration. In the filter enter useragent.extra.firefox. You will see your current user-agent string; you may put whatever you want in there. If you want to make it appear as the default version of Firefox to websites enter: Firefox/2.0.0.11. Modify accordingly if there is a newer version.

Branding senza ricompilare

To brand "Bon Echo" without recompiling the whole browser, you need to replace the Bon Echo icons with the official Firefox icons, and change the strings "Bon Echo" and "BonEcho" in a few files. The firebrand script takes care of this. Run it after an upgrade or installation of firefox. To revert to the Bon Echo brand again, simply reinstall firefox. The script will by default download the icons every time it is run. To "cache" the icons locally for later firefox upgrades, set the NEWICONSDIR variable to a suitable directory, for instance

NEWICONSDIR=/usr/local/share/firebrand

Estensioni

Before you try to install extensions, make sure that your /tmp directory was created with the right permissions. If addons won't install, chmod 777 /tmp should fix it.

You may also get unexpected behavior like looking up a random webpage.

The reason stems from the use of the middle mouse buttons in UNIX-like operating systems. The middle mouse button is used to paste whatever text has been highlighted/added to the clipboard. Also, there is a feature in Firefox which defaults to loading the url of the corresponding text when it is depressed. This can be disabled like so:

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Derivati di Firefox

Iceweasel - The name of two different Firefox forks. One is a GNU project based on Firefox 1.5. The other is being developed by Debian and is based on 2.0. At the time of writing the AUR does have the GNU version of Iceweasel.

Swiftfox - An optimized and processor-specific build of Firefox. Currently available via AUR. It should be noted that, considering Arch Linux has ABS, you could build your own optimized build of Firefox.

Swiftweasel - Mostly like Swiftfox, but the binaries aren't under proprietary license. Some PKGBUILDs are available in AUR.